Development

Mass Nesting of Olive Ridley in Odisha Coast 6586

• Special
• Apr 05, 2020

The mass nesting of Olive Ridley sea turtles started at Odisha’s Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary in Kendrapara district on February 27, 2019 evening. The sanctuary has is considered to be the world’s largest rookery of sea turtles.

Nearly 80,000 sea turtles came ashore at the Nasi-1 and Nasi-2 islands of the sanctuary for Arribada, a Spanish term for mass nesting. 

The turtles, which had already congregated in the sea near Gahirmatha, came ashore for nesting in groups of 5,000 to 10,000 each and started nesting about 6.30 PM  and staryed until dawn. READ MORE

Changing climate Impacts Bonda Tribe 8103

• Special
• Apr 05, 2020

The Bonda people, scattered across 32 remote hilltop villages on the Kondakamberu mountain range of the Eastern Ghats in the Malkangiri district of Odisha, are one of the 13 particularly vulnerable tribal groups (PVTGs) in Odisha. They are believed to be part of the first wave of migration out of Africa about 60,000 years ago. They were the first forest settlers in India. As per the 2011 census, the population of the Bonda community was 12,231 in which females outnumbered the males.

But over the past few years, this group has been impacted by climate change, changing agricultural and

Opaque Electoral Bonds edge out transparent funding routes 6981

• Special
• Mar 12, 2020

Venkatesh Nayak, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative

Soon after the then Union Finance Minister announced the Government's plan to launch Electoral Bonds (EBs) as a method of making donations to political parties, in February 2017 I had READ MORE